I've been inspired by Golly's Kemwer munitions. Basically my proposition is a counter-commodity to the aforementioned.
The Core sources a lot of its income via selling Nomadic equipment and materials. This is typically to House Governments (although for the right price they'll sell to anyone, for the sake of simplicity it's probably best to keep the sell points to military installations for now). Since Nomad Remains are just plagued with numerous ooRP issues we think we'd rather treat something else as the Core's export commodity so that we can actually look for RP with the commodity and get RP back. Someone suggested we should have requested such a commodity a while ago but I held off. Now looks like a good time.
Quote:APM Advanced Hardware
APM Advanced Hardware are the products of the Core's extensive research into Nomad and AI technology found in the Edge Worlds. Packages typically include military grade augmentations, advanced power sources, research materials, combat weaponry and military equipment much more advanced and powerful than normal Sirian technology, rivalled only by Kemwer Munitions. Whilst publicly House Governments denounce further research into alien technology, Militaries and Intelligence factions are always very interested in superior technologies - especially when engaged in conflicts. Therefore, House affiliated research facilities will pay handsomely for these goods.
Not entirely sure what the legal status of these will be, however given Core's previous contracts with Houses it'll probably be legal for Core ID to haul but contraband for other IDs. So like Slaves for GMG, or Docking Ring and Trade Lane parts for Ageira. Not sure how that'll exactly factor in with pricing though.
Sold from:
Alabama Shipyard, Omicron Rho
Lawful Destinations:
Sunderland Research Station, Newcastle
Kansai Research Station, Honshu
Willard Research Station, California
Schatten Research Facility, Frankfurt
Unlawful/Quasi-Lawful Destinations:
Rochester Base, New York
Kreuzberg Depot, New Berlin
Trafalgar Base, New London
Newport Station, Sigma-13
Barrier Gate Station, Coronado
Such a commodity would be intercepted by the Order and their allies. Possibly House Lawfuls too. Still not entirely sure if this would be considered a contraband or not though.
Also if you're adjusting NPC loadouts, can you add the Core pilot commodity you made to the Core NPCs? That really needs to be done